I wanna rock-a-bye baby all night, and potty every day!

January 13, 2005 11:41 AM

Nippaz with Attitude! The Sex Pistols, Ramones, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Nirvana, and AC/DC ...for babies.
posted by Robot Johnny (20 comments total)

[this is terrible]
posted by psychotic_venom at 11:55 AM on January 13, 2005

I would kill to find these in the states...
posted by niteHawk at 12:10 PM on January 13, 2005

It just sounds like every cheap MIDI file version of these songs with horrid instruments applied. I second "this is terrible".
posted by glider at 12:10 PM on January 13, 2005

I recently turned on my two-month old niece to Raymond Scott and she seems pretty happy. Could be gas, though.
posted by dhoyt at 12:12 PM on January 13, 2005

i'd give a point for the inclusion of spinal tap if it weren't a moot point.
posted by petebest at 12:19 PM on January 13, 2005

And don't get me wrong. I agree these are terrible -- but in a glorious way.
posted by Robot Johnny at 12:23 PM on January 13, 2005

If you baby doesn't respond to the Midi style arragements, then perhaps this acoustic earthy mother figure delivery will soothe your childs senses...
posted by JBennett at 12:29 PM on January 13, 2005

JBennet - that was absolutely lovely. My six month old daughter has a new favorite lullaby.
posted by rks404 at 12:41 PM on January 13, 2005

This headline reminds me of a story my mother likes to embarrass me with about my misspent infancy.

When I was just being potty-trained, Eddie Murphy's misguided attempt at a singing career was going on. I changed the lyrics of "My girl wants to party all the time" accordingly. And sang it EVERYWHERE.
posted by u.n. owen at 12:53 PM on January 13, 2005

You know, if you ignore the "for babies" aspect, this (at least the hip-hop samples I listened to) would make some really fabulous lounge music. Or... fabulously terrible. The line is blurry.
posted by rkent at 1:19 PM on January 13, 2005

I think the concept of rock songs rearranged as lullabies is a good one, but this ain't it. This is shitty midi. Sweet Child of Mine would make a great lullaby, if played slowly on a xylophone and sung in a motherly voice.
posted by team lowkey at 1:29 PM on January 13, 2005

I like the shirts (especially the "Mama ain't raisin' no fool!" shirt) and the love/hate booties, even though the music is pretty awful to adult ears.
posted by pikachulolita at 4:04 PM on January 13, 2005

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say I thought a few were kind of quirky-cute, in a lounge-y sort of way. At least it's better than those horrifying Kidz Bop things. I get nightmares just from the commercials.
posted by LeeJay at 4:10 PM on January 13, 2005

Well, since I've only recently got my MeFi account and it is such a guilty pleasure, I'm going to call an (almost) double-post

That being said, I think the site is cool and deserves a front page post even if some of the content was duplicated in the baby clothing attitude thread.
posted by afflatus at 5:44 PM on January 13, 2005

Also, my partner is an infant/toddler teacher and one of my favorite kids of hers has really cool parents that expose her to all sorts of music. And to her mother's undying consternation and her fathers infinite delight....the 2 year old is quite the Ween fan. Kids got a future...not sure what sort though.
posted by afflatus at 5:46 PM on January 13, 2005

afflatus, as one newbie to another, I believe that there is agreed to be absolutely no problem with posting to the front page links previously found in comments.
posted by rustcellar at 6:19 PM on January 13, 2005

rustcellar, I think its a matter of ettiquette debate. However, I did not take offense at the link and hopefully indicated that I enjoyed the link and that the double post comment was more of a guilty pleasure than a jab at the poster.

I fall under that category of "long time listener, first time caller" and just thought I'd point out the mention in the other thread. We've no problems at all and are in agreement.
posted by afflatus at 6:25 PM on January 13, 2005

rustcellar: i've never seen an agreement about that - it is usually a pretty contentious thing to do.
posted by pikachulolita at 7:47 PM on January 13, 2005

\m/
posted by Foosnark at 7:48 AM on January 14, 2005

JBennet, that was wonderful.
posted by Songdog at 9:14 AM on January 14, 2005